NAVAL ACTIONS
OF
THE WAR OF 1812
BY
JAMES BARNES
AUTHOR OF
“FOR KING OR COUNTRY”
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
CARLTON T. CHAPMAN
NEW YORK
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
FOR KING OR COUNTRY. A Story of the American Revolution.Illustrated. Post 8vo, Cloth, $1 50.
A story that will be eagerly welcomed by boys of all ages.... It isdoubtful whether the reader will be content to lay the story asideuntil he has finished it. It is a good book for an idle day in thecountry, and we cordially recommend it both to boys on a holidayand to boys that stay at home.—Saturday Evening Gazette, Boston.
A spirited story of the days that tried men’s souls, full ofincident and movement that keep up the reader’s interest to theturning of the last page. It is full of dramatic situationsand graphic descriptions which irresistibly lead the readeron, regretful at the close that there is not still more ofit.—Christian Work, N. Y.
A fascinating study. It is replete with those Homeric touches whichdelight the heart of the healthy boy.... It would be difficultto find a more fascinating book for the young.—PhiladelphiaBulletin.
A capital story for boys, both young and old; full of adventureand movement, thoroughly patriotic in tone, throwing luminoussidelights upon the main events of the Revolution.—BrooklynStandard-Union.
Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York.
Copyright, 1896, by Harper & Brothers.
TO
MY FATHER
WHOSE ENCOURAGEMENT AND ASSISTANCE ARE HEREBY
ACKNOWLEDGED WITH AFFECTIONATE GRATITUDE
I HAVE THE HONOR TO DEDICATE
THIS BOOK
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PREFACE
The country that has no national heroes whose deeds should be foundemblazoned on her annals, that can boast no men whose lives and conductcan be held up as examples of what loyalty, valor, and courage shouldbe, that country has no patriotism, no heart, no soul.
If it be wrong to tell of a glorious past, for fear of keeping alivean animosity that should have perished with time, there have been manyoffenders; and the author of the following pages thus writes himselfdown as one of them. Truly, if pride in the past be a safeguard for thefuture in forming a national spirit, America should rejoice.
There exists no Englishman today whose heart is not moved at the word“Trafalgar,” or whose feelings are not stirred by the sentence “Englandexpects every man to do his duty.” The slight, one-armed figure ofAdmiral Nelson has been before the Briton’s eyes as boy and man,surrounded always w